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  • Linux should use less power and go green

    At a summit in Canada next week, Linux developers will meet to discuss ways of improving Linux's power management capabilities.

  • New Sun unit plans technology partnerships

    Sun Microsystems will launch a new business unit next week to sell hardware and software that other companies can embed into their own technology products.

  • The information debate: Where vendor interests collide

    Where is the technology industry going and what should customers be focussing on? Last week, executives from five top IT vendors, Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, Dell, and EMC met to debate these questions.

  • HP: For circuits, swap silicon for molecules

    With a recent breakthrough in making circuits with molecules, Hewlett-Packard hopes to change chip history and expand its own role in the process.

  • Next-generation search tools to refine results

    The vast corpus of human knowledge could soon be published on the Internet. The problem now is how to wade through it.

  • McNealy: Microsoft integration work slow going

    The integration of Microsoft and Sun Microsystems technology is progressing, but it is more complex than envisioned, according to Scott McNealy, Sun's chief executive.

  • It’s too late to worry now, so buy yourself a Y2K pressie

    All we can do now is sit back and wait. Whatever happens on New Year’s Eve, the Y2K consultants will be vindicated. If there’s universal disaster they’ll be able to say “We told you so!”.

  • Intel releases new Celeron, chip sets for mobile users

    Intel has released a new mobile Celeron chip along with a set of components aimed at helping PC makers build thinner, lighter and less-expensive notebooks.

  • The road ahead

    What are the technologies that will be driving Australian ICT in the coming year?

  • In need of an alignment?

    Do you really need to be told the importance of aligning IT and business strategies? Or are you getting sick of being told the obvious?

  • Phoenix toughens up BIOS

    The software that sits between the operating system and a PC's hardware hasn't changed much in decades. Now, Phoenix Technologies wants to introduce greater security, usability and copy protection.

  • Intel buys cluster-computing software

    Intel has agreed to buy a high-performance computing software group from German company Pallas, the chipmaker's latest effort to use software to let customers squeeze more performance out of its processors.

  • Sun makes play for games market

    Sun Microsystems hopes to open new frontiers for its Java technology by spinning off a division dedicated to pushing the programming language into computer and video games.

  • SMS takes a corporate short-cut

    The results of a recent poll into the SMS habits of Australians sheds new light on the take-up of the increasingly popular service, with 59 percent of respondents confirming their virgin status when it comes to SMSing for special occasions.

  • Recovery firms respond to U.S. blackout

    Thursday's power outage in the eastern United States led some companies to invoke their disaster-recovery services.

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